| die | noun (n.) A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice. |
| | noun (n.) Any small cubical or square body. |
| | noun (n.) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance. |
| | noun (n.) That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado. |
| | noun (n.) A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing. |
| | noun (n.) A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool. |
| | verb (v. i.) To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought. |
| | verb (v. i.) To suffer death; to lose life. |
| | verb (v. i.) To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished. |
| | verb (v. i.) To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. |
| | verb (v. i.) To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin. |
| | verb (v. i.) To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away. |
| | verb (v. i.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face. |
| | verb (v. i.) To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor. |
| | (pl. ) of Dice |
| diet | noun (n.) Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare. |
| | noun (n.) A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed. |
| | noun (n.) A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521. |
| | noun (n.) Any of various national or local assemblies; |
| | noun (n.) Occasionally, the Reichstag of the German Empire, Reichsrath of the Austrian Empire, the federal legislature of Switzerland, etc. |
| | noun (n.) The legislature of Denmark, Sweden, Japan, or Hungary. |
| | noun (n.) The state assembly or any of various local assemblies in the states of the German Empire, as the legislature (Landtag) of the kingdom of Prussia, and the Diet of the Circle (Kreistag) in its local government. |
| | noun (n.) The local legislature (Landtag) of an Austrian province. |
| | noun (n.) The federative assembly of the old Germanic Confederation (1815 -- 66). |
| | noun (n.) In the old German or Holy Roman Empire, the great formal assembly of counselors (the Imperial Diet or Reichstag) or a small, local, or informal assembly of a similar kind (the Court Diet, or Hoftag). |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to take food; to feed. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of. |
| | verb (v. i.) To eat; to take one's meals. |
| | verb (v. i.) To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet. |
| damp | noun (n.) Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor. |
| | noun (n.) Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind. |
| | noun (n.) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints, etc. |
| | noun (n.) To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth. |
| | noun (n.) To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage. |
| | superlative (superl.) Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid. |
| | superlative (superl.) Dejected; depressed; sunk. |
| deep | noun (n.) That which is deep, especially deep water, as the sea or ocean; an abyss; a great depth. |
| | noun (n.) That which is profound, not easily fathomed, or incomprehensible; a moral or spiritual depth or abyss. |
| | superlative (superl.) Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, which is measured upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea. |
| | superlative (superl.) Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep. |
| | superlative (superl.) Low in situation; lying far below the general surface; as, a deep valley. |
| | superlative (superl.) Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; -- opposed to shallow or superficial; intricate; mysterious; not obvious; obscure; as, a deep subject or plot. |
| | superlative (superl.) Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning. |
| | superlative (superl.) Profound; thorough; complete; unmixed; intense; heavy; heartfelt; as, deep distress; deep melancholy; deep horror. |
| | superlative (superl.) Strongly colored; dark; intense; not light or thin; as, deep blue or crimson. |
| | superlative (superl.) Of low tone; full-toned; not high or sharp; grave; heavy. |
| | superlative (superl.) Muddy; boggy; sandy; -- said of roads. |
| | adverb (adv.) To a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply. |
| dip | noun (n.) The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid. |
| | noun (n.) Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch. |
| | noun (n.) A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon. |
| | noun (n.) A dipped candle. |
| | noun (n.) A gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms. |
| | noun (n.) In the turpentine industry, the viscid exudation, which is dipped out from incisions in the trees; as, virgin dip (the runnings of the first year), yellow dip (the runnings of subsequent years). |
| | noun (n.) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole. |
| | verb (v. t.) To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again. |
| | verb (v. t.) To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion. |
| | verb (v. t.) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten. |
| | verb (v. t.) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair. |
| | verb (v. t.) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water. |
| | verb (v. t.) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. |
| | verb (v. i.) To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink. |
| | verb (v. i.) To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part. |
| | verb (v. i.) To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into. |
| | verb (v. i.) To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into. |
| | verb (v. i.) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip. |
| | verb (v. i.) To dip snuff. |
| drop | noun (n.) The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as, a drop of water. |
| | noun (n.) That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug. |
| | noun (n.) Same as Gutta. |
| | noun (n.) Any small pendent ornament. |
| | noun (n.) Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something |
| | noun (n.) A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself. |
| | noun (n.) A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck. |
| | noun (n.) A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet. |
| | noun (n.) A curtain which drops or falls in front of the stage of a theater, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A drop press or drop hammer. |
| | noun (n.) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger. |
| | noun (n.) Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops. |
| | noun (n.) The depth of a square sail; -- generally applied to the courses only. |
| | noun (n.) Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent. |
| | noun (n.) To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill. |
| | noun (n.) To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy. |
| | noun (n.) To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit. |
| | noun (n.) To bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in an indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as, to drop hint, a word of counsel, etc. |
| | noun (n.) To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc. |
| | noun (n.) To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word. |
| | noun (n.) To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb. |
| | noun (n.) To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop. |
| | verb (v. i.) To fall in drops. |
| | verb (v. i.) To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips. |
| | verb (v. i.) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops. |
| | verb (v. i.) To fall dead, or to fall in death. |
| | verb (v. i.) To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped. |
| | verb (v. i.) To come unexpectedly; -- with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment. |
| | verb (v. i.) To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little. |
| | verb (v. i.) To fall short of a mark. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards. |
| dump | noun (n.) A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. |
| | noun (n.) A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc. |
| | noun (n.) That which is dumped. |
| | noun (n.) A pile of ore or rock. |
| | verb (v. t.) A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural. |
| | verb (v. t.) Absence of mind; revery. |
| | verb (v. t.) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. |
| | verb (v. t.) An old kind of dance. |
| | verb (v. t.) To knock heavily; to stump. |
| | verb (v. t.) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc. |
